"of raisins from the islands. Another measure was the "", a heavy export tax for foreign ships. The currency of the islands during Venetian rule was the Venetian lira, as in Venice. There was a special issue for the Islands; the observe side of it has the complete or shertened inscription CORFU/CEFALONIA/ZANTE in three lines. The reserve depicts the winged and haloed lion of Saint Marc in a front view, holding the book of the Gospel in his fore-paws. The Ionian Islands formed part of the Venetian maritime trade route to the Orient. When the central Ionian Islands were captured"
"Cephalonia Cephalonia or Kefalonia ( or ), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th largest island in Greece after Crete, Evoia, Lesvos, Rhodes, and Chios. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It was also a former Latin Catholic diocese Kefalonia–Zakynthos (Cefalonia–Zante) and short-lived titular see as just Kefalonia. The capital of Cephalonia is Argostoli. An ""aition"" explaining the name of Cephallenia and reinforcing its cultural connections with Athens associates the island with"
"Makronisos Makronisos (, lit. ""Long Island""), or Makronisi, is an island in the Aegean sea, in Greece, notorious as the site of a political prison from the 1940s to the 1970s. It is located close to the coast of Attica, facing the port of Lavrio. The island has an elongated shape, north to south, around east to west, and its terrain is arid and rocky. It is the largest uninhabited Greek island. It is part of the Kea-Kythnos regional unit and in the municipality of Kea. In ancient times the island was called Helena (), and was situated so as"
"are as follows: Cephalonia is the home of Kassandra and Alexios, main characters of the popular videogame ""Assassin's Creed Odyssey"" (2018). Cephalonia Cephalonia or Kefalonia ( or ), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th largest island in Greece after Crete, Evoia, Lesvos, Rhodes, and Chios. It is also a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and the only municipality of the regional unit. It was also a former Latin Catholic diocese Kefalonia–Zakynthos (Cefalonia–Zante) and short-lived titular see as just Kefalonia. The capital of"
"Lipari Lipari (, , , ""Meligounis"" or ""Lipara"") is the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of Sicily, southern Italy; it is also the name of the island's main town and ""comune"", which is administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Messina. Its population is 12,734, but during the May to September tourist season, the total population may reach up to 20,000. Lipari is the largest of a chain of islands in a volcanic archipelago situated in between Vesuvius and Etna. The island has a surface area of and is from Sicily. Besides"
"Pylos-Nestor municipality. Messenian Oinousses Messenian Oinousses () is a Greek island complex in the southwest coasts of Peloponnese, in Ionian Sea. It is located in the south of Messenian peninsula, opposite Methoni and Foinikounda. The complex comprises from the islands Schiza and Sapienza and the islets and rocks Venetiko, Agia Mariani, Avgo, Dyo Aderfia and Boba. The largest island is Schiza, whereas the only populated is Sapientza. In the southwest of Oinousses is the deepest point of Mediterranean Sea, the Calypso Deep, known in Greek as Oinousses Trench. Oinousses has been included in the environmental program Natura 2000. The islands"
"Othonoi Othonoi (, also rendered as Othoni) is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea, located northwest of Corfu, and is the westernmost point of Greece. Othonoi is the largest of the Diapontia Islands. It is a former community of the Ionian Islands. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 10.078 km and population of 392 (2011). In the 19th century the island was the capital of the Diapontia Islands municipality, which also included nearby islands of Ereikoussa,"
"Salamis Island Salamis (; ""Salamína"", Ancient and Katharevousa: Σαλαμίς ""Salamís""), is the largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile (2 km) off-coast from Piraeus and about west of central Athens. The chief city, Salamina, lies in the west-facing core of the crescent on Salamis Bay, which opens into the Saronic Gulf. On the Eastern side of the island is its main port, Paloukia, in size second in Greece only to Piraeus, the port of Athens. The traditional etymology of Salamis derives it from the eponymous nymph Salamis, the mother of Cychreus, the legendary first king of"
"the site of the sinking, in 1916, of HMHS ""Britannic"", sister ship of the RMS ""Titanic"". Makronisos Makronisos (, lit. ""Long Island""), or Makronisi, is an island in the Aegean sea, in Greece, notorious as the site of a political prison from the 1940s to the 1970s. It is located close to the coast of Attica, facing the port of Lavrio. The island has an elongated shape, north to south, around east to west, and its terrain is arid and rocky. It is the largest uninhabited Greek island. It is part of the Kea-Kythnos regional unit and in the municipality"
"in December 1437, when his ship sought shelter from a storm on the island during his journey to the Council of Ferrara. On 12 February 1944, SS ""Oria"" sank in a storm on the south east rocks of Patroklos island with 4,074 killed, most Italian military internees. It was also the island at the heart of the Israeli political scandal known as the ""Greek island affair"". Patroklos (Attica) Patroklos () or Gaidouronisi (Γαϊδουρονήσι, ""donkey island"") is a small, private island located in the Saronic Gulf, Greece. It is situated about 65 km from Athens and 3 km from Sounion and"
"(""My Friend Maigret"") (1949) and for the 1964 novel ""Valparaiso"" by Nicolas Freeling. Since 2010, the island also hosts a jazz festival each summer (""Jazz à Porquerolles""). On December 28, 2016 Var Martin reported that residents were considering blockading the port to protest the closure of the post office and the police station. Porquerolles Porquerolles (), also known as the Île de Porquerolles, is an island in the Îles d'Hyères, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Its land area is and in 2004 its population was about 200. Porquerolles is the largest, most westerly of the three Îles d'Hyères. It is about"
"famous book is his fourth, ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"", in which the eponymous hero is an Italian soldier who is part of the occupying force on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Second World War. In the US it was originally published as ""Corelli's Mandolin"". In 2001, the book was turned into a film. De Bernières strongly disapproved of the film version, commenting, ""It would be impossible for a parent to be happy about its baby's ears being put on backwards."" He does however state that it has redeeming qualities, and particularly likes the soundtrack. Since the release of the"
"Strauss visited Lixouri some times where he had an affair with the pianist Dora Wihan (born Weiss). The novelists Nikos Kavvadias (1910–1975) and the Swiss (1917–2010) spent parts of their life on the island. Andreas Laskaratos was a satirical poet and wrote about the society in the town of Lixouri. Lord Byron wrote parts of ""Prelude"" and ""Don Juan"" in Livatho. Perhaps the best known appearance of Cephalonia in popular culture is in the novel ""Captain Corelli's Mandolin"", by the English author Louis de Bernières. The book is believed to have been inspired by the village of Farsa, just outside"
"1953. According to Robert Bittlestone's 2005 book ""Odysseus Unbound"", Paliki was Homer's Ithaca, the home of Odysseus, the central figure in the Odyssey of Homer. Paliki Paliki () is a peninsula and a former municipality on the island of Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Kefalonia, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 119.341 km. The name comes from the ancient town of Pale/Pali, which was north of Lixouri and is now an archaeological site. The peninsula is the westernmost part of Kefalonia."
"Fournoi Korseon Fournoi Korseon () or Fournoi Ikarias (), more commonly simply Fournoi (), is a complex or archipelago of small Greek islands that lie between Ikaria, Samos and Patmos in Ikaria regional unit, North Aegean region. The two largest islands of the complex, the main isle of Fournoi and the isle of Thymaina , are inhabited, as is Agios Minas Island to the east. The municipality has an area of 45.247 km. On the main isle Fournoi (town) is the largest settlement and then Chrysomilia in the north the second largest (and third largest overall, after Thymaina). Fournoi (town)"
"the island. Ponza Ponza (Italian: ""isola di Ponza"" ) is the largest island of the Italian Pontine Islands archipelago, located south of Cape Circeo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is also the name of the commune of the island, a part of the province of Latina in the Lazio region. The island was inhabited from neolithic through Roman times. According to local legends, Ponza was named after Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judea who tried Jesus of Nazareth for sedition against Roman rule. Pontius Pilate's family owned a grotto on Ponza, which is still named after him. The Pontius Pilate"
"Gourdin Island Gourdin Island is the largest island (124 ha) in a group of islands and rocks north of Prime Head, the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Ensign Jean Gourdin of the expedition ship ""Astrolabe"". The island was reidentified and charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945–47. The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 14,000 pairs of Adélie penguins, as well as over"
"place, Ali Pasha died in 1822, chased by Ottoman army. Ioannina Island Ioannina Island () is an island in the Lake of Ioannina, Epirus, Greece, a municipal unit of the municipality of Ioannina. Its area is 0,2 km, with biggest length 800 meters and biggest width 500 meters. Until the 2011 reform of local government, it was a community within the Ioannina regional unit. Its population in 2001 was 347 and in 2011 was 219. It is reached by boat from the city of Ioannina or by ferry from the nearby shore. The island is mentioned since 13th century when"
"the entire region. Other notable sport clubs include Iraklio B.C. (basketball), Atsalenios (football) and Irodotos (football) in the suburbs of ""Atsalenio"" and Nea Alikarnassos respectively. Heraklion has been the home town of some of Greece's most significant spirits, including the novelist Nikos Kazantzakis (perhaps best known for his novel ""Zorba the Greek""), the poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseas Elytis and the world-famous painter Domenicos Theotokopoulos (El Greco). Heraklion is twinned with: Heraklion Heraklion or Heraclion (; , ""Irákleio"", ) is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete. It is the fourth largest city in"
"aboard a 50-foot catamaran in the Canary Isles. The novel is largely set on the Canarian island of La Gomera. The Curiosity Cabinet, a novel based on a trilogy of the author's own radio plays of the same name, was shortlisted for the Dundee Book Prize in 2005 and subsequently published by Polygon. John Burnside describes it as 'a powerful story about love and obligation... a persuasive novel, very well written'. A Kindle version, published by Wordarts, is now available. A major hardback history of the people of Gigha, God's Islanders, was published by Birlinn in 2006. Her stories have"
"Zakynthos Zakynthos ( ; ) or Zante (; ; , ""rare"": ; from the Venetian form), is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the third largest of the Ionian Islands. Zakynthos is a separate regional unit of the Ionian Islands region, and its only municipality. It covers an area of and its coastline is roughly in length. The name, like all similar names ending in -nthos, is pre-Mycenaean or Pelasgian in origin. In Greek mythology the island was said to be named after Zakynthos, the son of a legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus. Zakynthos is a tourist destination,"
"to the tranquil island of Cephalonia, whose inhabitants surrender immediately. Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer of the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, has a jovial personality and a passion for the mandolin, and trains his battery of men, (who have never fired a shot), to choral sing. Initially he alienates a number of villagers, including Pelagia, the daughter of the village doctor. She is an educated and strong-willed woman. At first offended by the Italian soldier's behaviour, she slowly warms to Corelli's charm, and mandolin playing, as they are forced to share her father's home after the doctor agrees to"
"on maneuvers in the area. Maddalena archipelago The 'Maddalena Archipelago' is a group of islands in the Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica (France) and north-eastern Sardinia (Italy). The archipelago consists of seven main islands and numerous small islets. The largest one is the island of La Maddalena (), with an homonymous town of La Maddalena, which is the largest settlement at the archipelago. The other six islands, in order of size, are: Caprera, Spargi, Santo Stefano, Santa Maria, Budelli and Razzoli. Only Maddalena, Caprera and Santo Stefano are inhabited. Lying adjacent to the tourist resort of the Costa Smeralda, Maddalena"
"of the novel """", Alexandre Dumas, père's second sequel to ""The Three Musketeers"". Dumas has his character Aramis fortify the island (in place of Vauban, historically) and Porthos dies there, in the caves of Locmaria. Belle Île Belle-Île, Belle-Île-en-Mer, or Belle Isle (ar Gerveur in Modern Breton; Guedel in Old Breton) is a French island off the coast of Brittany in the ""département"" of Morbihan, and the largest of Brittany's islands. It is from the Quiberon peninsula. Administratively, the island is divided into four communes: Belle-Île formed a canton until 2015 when it was merged into Quiberon as part of"
"the strategically important Ionian Islands from the French. In October 1798 the French garrisons were driven from Cythera, Zakynthos, Cephalonia, and Lefkada. It remained to take the largest and best-fortified island of the archipelago, Corfu. The city of Corfu is located on the east coast in the central part of the island between two forts: From the new to the old fort a high wall ran along the shore. The town was also covered by bastions on two mountains, Abraham and Salvatore, and the intermediate fort of San Rocco. From the sea, the city was protected by the well-fortified island"
"are being written, Greece will endure"". The Australian novelist and short story writer Beverley Farmer described the English translation of ""Vasilis Arvanitis"" as “a jewel of a book”. The classical composer Yiannis Papaioannou (Greek: Ιωάννης Παπαιωάννου) wrote a musical work with the title ""Vasilis Arvanitis"" (1945). Translations Criticism Vasilis Arvanitis Vasilis Arvanitis () is a novella by the Greek writer Stratis Myrivilis set on the island of Lesbos (Mytilene) in the 1910s. The novella is set in Myrivilis' home village of Sykamnia on the island of Lesbos in the first decade of the 20th century. At that time the island"
"Apollonioi Apollonioi () is a former municipality on the island of Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lefkada, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located in the southwestern part of the island. Its population was 2,768 at the 2011 census. The seat of the municipality was in Vasiliki (pop. 395). Its area is 124.709 km², comprising about 41 percent of Lefkada Island. Its largest towns are Ágios Pétros (pop. 422), Vasilikí, Sývros (379), and Marantochóri (330). The area features beautiful beaches on the western side of the"
"Ponza Ponza (Italian: ""isola di Ponza"" ) is the largest island of the Italian Pontine Islands archipelago, located south of Cape Circeo in the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is also the name of the commune of the island, a part of the province of Latina in the Lazio region. The island was inhabited from neolithic through Roman times. According to local legends, Ponza was named after Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judea who tried Jesus of Nazareth for sedition against Roman rule. Pontius Pilate's family owned a grotto on Ponza, which is still named after him. The Pontius Pilate legend of"
"to settlements. There is complete electrification and a telephone network with Internet access. Othonoi Othonoi (, also rendered as Othoni) is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea, located northwest of Corfu, and is the westernmost point of Greece. Othonoi is the largest of the Diapontia Islands. It is a former community of the Ionian Islands. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 10.078 km and population of 392 (2011). In the 19th century the island was the"
"Corfu Corfu or Kerkyra (; , ; , ; ; ) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the northwesternmost part of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality, which also includes the smaller islands of Ereikoussa, Mathraki and Othonoi. The municipality has an area of 610,9 km, the island proper 592,8 km. The principal city of the island and seat of the municipality (pop. 32,095) is also named Corfu. Corfu is home"
"1942 the division headquarters were briefly relocated to Lefkada before settling on Cephalonia in May, 1943. Following the Italian surrender in September 1943, thousands of soldiers from the division were executed on the islands during Operation Achse, in what became known as the ""Cephallonia massacre"". One of the largest prisoner of war massacres of the war, and one of the largest-scale German atrocities to be committed by Wehrmacht troops, this event provided the historical background to the novel ""Captain Corelli’s Mandolin"", which later became a Hollywood film. The events in Cefalonia were repeated, to a lesser extent, elsewhere. In Corfu,"
"Stouronisi Stouronisi () or Styronisi (Στυρονήσι, ""island of Styra"") is a small island in the Euboean Sea. It is located in the South Euboean Gulf opposite Styra. It is the largest island of a small island complex comprising 7 islets and rocks. Τhe island has an area about 2 km. Stouronisi has recently become known because of some plans of the Greek government for a development of a high-class summer resort in the island. In antiquity, the island was named Aegilia or Aigilia (), or Aigileia or Aegileia (Αἰγίλεια), and was referred by Herodotus. Herodotus writes that during the First"
"550 pairs of gentoo penguins. Gourdin Island Gourdin Island is the largest island (124 ha) in a group of islands and rocks north of Prime Head, the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Ensign Jean Gourdin of the expedition ship ""Astrolabe"". The island was reidentified and charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945–47. The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 14,000 pairs of Adélie"